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...campaigned and the old-line slate didn't," Cliff Truesdale, elected on the Ward 2 reform slate, said last night. Truesdale added that the number of liberal Democrats who crossed party lines to vote for presidential candidate Rep. John B. Anderson (R-I11.) almost cost the slate its victory...
...MUSICAL FAIRY TALE begins to fall apart when the prospect of parenthood forces Cliff and Sally to look more seriously at their happy-go-lucky lives. The pace of the show picks up, and in a short, confusing scene, a Nazi soldier appears on stage, sings "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," and disappears. Perhaps van Druten wishes the audience to experience the confusion the German people actually felt about what was happening around them. We already know what happened, though, and this mournful scene only puzzles a modern audience...
...meaning of the new political force soon becomes clear to Cliff as well. He insists that Sally leave Berlin immediately and return with him to the U.S. She balks, and after a nocturnal visit to the doctor, returns no longer pregnant, and without her fur coat. In an emotion-charged scene, Epes's performance comes alive, with the fear that Sally will refuse to leave with him--he cannot even let Sally utter the words...
FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read · Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood · On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett · Shikasta, Doris Leasing · Smiley's People, John le Carre · The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin · Yellowfish, John Keeble
...Lookout Mountain Hill, a mudslide destroyed two houses and left the $1.25 million mansion of famed Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson tottering on the edge of a cliff and in danger of being washed away by the next storm. He was resigned to losing the house, which engineers doubted could be saved. He quipped, "I can live in my office, I can practice law in the courthouse and I don't see my wife much anyway...